psmith@iies.ecn.purdue.edu (Paul F Smith) (06/11/91)
Hello folks, I've been using BC++ for a couple of months (or so) now and have collected up the following questions. I hope someone can help... 1. I would like to create help files (RTF) using MS-Word 5.5, but I don't have a printer driver that knows what fonts come with Windows. Does anyone have such a thing? Does it come with MS's SDK? 2. I have an idea for a hypertext application (don't we all :-) that could almost be done with the Windows Help program. I would like to add just a couple of enhancements to the program to make it work better for my application. Is the source code to the Windows help program available? Possibly in the MS-SDK? Or, does anyone know of a PD/SW hypertext program for windows, preferably with source? This next one may be a known bug, so my apologies, I can't afford to call MS and am hoping that a solution is available here: 3. When I run the help compiler with the COMPRESS=TRUE option I get an "Abort, Retry, Fail" message from SHARE. I'm not on a network, I don't use SMARTDRV, FASTOPEN or anything else like that. Just QEMM386 and PC-CACHE, but I don't think they are the problem, as everything else works fine. If I tell it to ignore (several times) the compile finishes and the help file *appears* to be OK. Well, I haven't found a problem, yet! :-) Any ideas? Thanks to all for the help, and the bandwidth! -Paul -- // // Paul F. Smith - ADPC - Purdue University // Sometimes I wake up grumpy, // PFSMITH@freh-01ms.apdc.purdue.edu or // other times I let him sleep. // psmith@ecn.purdue.edu // - My wife.
ted@gdfwc3 (Ted Barker) (06/13/91)
In article <1991Jun10.203641.11153@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> psmith@iies.ecn.purdue.edu (Paul F Smith) writes: | This next one may be a known bug, so my apologies, I can't afford | to call MS and am hoping that a solution is available here: | | 3. When I run the help compiler with the COMPRESS=TRUE option | I get an "Abort, Retry, Fail" message from SHARE. | | I'm not on a network, I don't use SMARTDRV, FASTOPEN or anything | else like that. Just QEMM386 and PC-CACHE, but I don't think they | are the problem, as everything else works fine. | | If I tell it to ignore (several times) the compile finishes and | the help file *appears* to be OK. Well, I haven't found a problem, | yet! :-) I haven't used the hc yet, but have run in to similar problems running in 386enh mode using large DOS volume. If two applications are trying to access the same file (Word 5.5 and hc?) SHARE goes nuts. Has the RTF file been closed by Word before openning with hc? Hope this helps. -- _______________________________________________________________________________ Ted Barker tbarker@ee.uta.edu uunet!texsun!gdfwc3!ted What IS the standard disclaimer? gdfwc3!ted@central.sun.com If it exists, is it ANSI? CCIT? IEEE? MIL? ABA?? _______________________________________________________________________________
psmith@iies.ecn.purdue.edu (Paul F Smith) (06/17/91)
In article <TED.91Jun13080811@kuwait.gdfwc3> gdfwc3!ted@central.sun.com writes: >In article <1991Jun10.203641.11153@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> psmith@iies.ecn.purdue.edu (Paul F Smith) writes: > >| This next one may be a known bug, so my apologies, I can't afford >| to call MS and am hoping that a solution is available here: >| >| 3. When I run the help compiler with the COMPRESS=TRUE option >| I get an "Abort, Retry, Fail" message from SHARE. >| >| I'm not on a network, I don't use SMARTDRV, FASTOPEN or anything >| else like that. Just QEMM386 and PC-CACHE, but I don't think they >| are the problem, as everything else works fine. >| >| If I tell it to ignore (several times) the compile finishes and >| the help file *appears* to be OK. Well, I haven't found a problem, >| yet! :-) > >I haven't used the hc yet, but have run in to similar problems running in >386enh mode using large DOS volume. If two applications are trying to >access the same file (Word 5.5 and hc?) SHARE goes nuts. Has the RTF file >been closed by Word before openning with hc? Hope this helps. Yes, the files is closed. I'm not working in windows or anything, just in one program at a time. And, as I said it only happens when I use COMPRESS=TRUE. Other than that the procedure is the same. Anyone else seen this?? Thanks. -- // // Paul F. Smith - ADPC - Purdue University // Sometimes I wake up grumpy, // PFSMITH@freh-01ms.apdc.purdue.edu or // other times I let him sleep. // psmith@ecn.purdue.edu // - My wife.